Sardar Ishar Singh Nakai

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Sardar Ishar Singh Nakai (aka Abdul Aziz Nakai)

Sardar Ishar Singh Nakai (aka Abdul Aziz Nakai),died 1933, was the descendant of Sardar Hira Singh Nakai (1706-1767), a Sikh Sandhu Jatt of village Baherwal Kalan in present day Kasur District of Punjab (Pakistan), the founder of the Sikh principality of Nakai Misl, one of the twelve Sikh Confederacies that ruled from (1748-1810).

Sardar Ishar Singh Sandhu, was one of the many children of the Nakai Sikh Sardars of Baherwal Kalan. During the late 1800s, Before the Ghadar Lehr, and the Akali Lehr were in power and fighting for freedom, Sardar Ishar Singh Nakai, married a muslim lady, and he converted to Islam taking the name Abdul Aziz Nakai.He had two sons namely Khan Bahadur Din Muhammad Nakai and Muhammad Akbar. KB Din Muhammad Nakai had two sons, S. Muhammad Sulaiman Nakai and S Muhammad Arif Nakai.

Sardar Muhammad Arif Nakai Sandhu (d.2000) a Pakistani politician, and was his grandson, son of KB Din Muhammad Nakai and the Chief Minister of Punjab province of Pakistan from 1995-1996. He died in the year 2000 at a ripe age. He had one daughter and three sons the elder one, now deceased, Pervaiz Hasan Nakai was a member of the Punjab Assembly while the middle one is presently a member of the Punjab Assembly and from 2003 to 2008 was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan and former Minister of State his youngest son Atif Nakai was the Nazim of tehsil Pattoki, Distt. Kasur.